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ZOE SIMON |
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Nationality: British / Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Angry and incisive and at times sharply satirical Zoe's plays include SCRATCH - inspired by the 7/7 bombings - about the aftermath of a terrorist attack on Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. Time Out on SCRATCH : 'Zoe Simon reveals herself as a writer of rare audacity and ambition'. Also HEAD - about a mentally ill young woman growing up in dire poverty on a sink estate in South London. The Stage on HEAD: Zoe Simon is showing the promise of being an outstanding theatrical player. Zoe is also an actress.
Plays by Zoe Simon
Daughter of Frankenstein, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The White Bear Theatre Club, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Eccentric Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47304 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Laban-based / Fairytale-based Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Fourteen year old Augusta is an elective mute who seeks solace from her dysfunctional family by conjuring the imaginary spirits of Byron, Shelley and Clare Claremont and in an incestuous relationship with her older brother. Wracked with guilt her brother commits suicide, and Augusta, blaming her mother, murders her. Her father is at a loss to understand what has driven his silent daughter to such a brutal act, but then the mysterious figure of The Poet on the Hill grants Augusta one night to tell her story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Echo and Narcissus | ||
| 1st Produced: | The White Bear Theatre Club, London | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Fail Better Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45748 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised by Zoe Simon and Fail Better Productions | |||||
Synopsis: | The play is a literal reworking of the myth of Echo and Narcissus Based on Roman poet Ovid's telling of it.Echo and Narcissus work in a derelict office in South London. Echo works day and night collecting fragments for Narcissus to help him discover his true identity. She is voiceless except for the fragments and unable to delcare her love for him. She disintegrates physically with pain and parlaysed from the waist down is forced to drag herslf around to collect more and more information for Narcissus, until Narcissus' double breaks into the office and gives Echo and new lease of life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Head | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Fail Better Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45749 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Fringe First nominated | |||||
Synopsis: | It looks at the plight of two teenagers: Head and Urchin, growing up on a sink estate in South London. The central character, Head, a 17 year old girl, self harms and suffers from deep depression, she meets and falls in love troubled young man Urchin, a local vandal who does graffiti. Their relationship has tragic consequences. 'The Stage' wrote: 'Simon is showing the promise of being an outstanding theatrical player'. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lust | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 15 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Golden Delilah | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115179 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of 7:1 Beyond control. 7 prestigious writers. 7 short plays. 7 deadly sins. This collection of plays focusses on the Seven Deadly Sins and their effects on human nature. These plays offer us the opportunity to form fresh perspectives on modern issues concerning our moral values and how they affect our family, social and work relationships. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Saturday Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Skin and Bone | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86375 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | explores the cultural significance in the rise of media studies and the decline of women studies. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scratch | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Skin and Bone | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55179 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Voiceovers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The action of the play takes place in a betting shop in a seedy part of London. The motley quartet who inhabit it seethe with explosive and vicious desires. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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